dead weight

Example Sentences

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The factory sector no longer looks like dead weight.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

Now he had been deemed dead weight in Italy, too.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

That’s because when he was in contact with the rock his legs were worse than dead weight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Misguided, opinionated labor is dead weight; the high-up leaders know best, which is why they’ve earned the positions they have to begin with.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023

I shed my anger standing there, sloughed off the dead weight of it.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson